Jacalin Ding

Cohort 2 - NOV 2023

JUL 2023

Cohort 4 - Nov 2024

Cohort 3 - May 2024

Cohort 5 - Mar 2025

3 weeks - Strategic Business Designer Accelerator 


Cohort 7 - Oct - AEST / PDT / EDT 

Cohort 6 - June - CET / AEST / GULF / APAC

Cohort 8 - MAR - AEST / PDT / EDT 

Cohort 9 - Jun: AEST / PDT / PST / EDT

Cohort 10

Cohort 1

In this focused webinar, learn the mindset shifts and practical steps to move beyond craft and align your design work with business outcomes. Break through common mental blockers and discover what it really takes to become an influential business partner – not just a designer. Featuring Jac's personal journey and practical insights. Unlock this 18-min power session 👇🏼(limited access)

From Designer to Strategic Partner: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Impact

Use AI to strengthen strategic thinking. Gain trust as a business partner. Make confident strategic decisions. Communicate design's value.

Product & Design Leader  |  Founder 

Product & Design Leader | 2x Business Founder | Coached 10,000+ Designers

AI-Powered Strategic Design Accelerator

Data Visualization Specialist

Senior Product Designer

Int. UX Designer

Product Designer

CX & Product Designer

UX/UI Designer

Senior Designer

Anthropic

DoorDash

Atlassian

Google

Canva

MAR (SOLD OUT) ⭐️9.8/10 Rating ⭐️Top 7th design course on Maven ⭐️ 3 cohorts annually ⭐️ 20 students capacity ⭐️ 1-1 support ⭐️ --Many designers face these challenges:👉🏽 Hesitating to contribute to business strategy discussions👉🏽 Hitting a career ceiling despite strong craft skills👉🏽 Struggling to communicate design value to business stakeholders .This course transforms you from executor to strategic partner. Beyond business acumens, learn to apply AI tools across strategy, evaluation and to increase your business confidence.With AI handling repetitive craft, the designers who advance are those equipped with business knowledge, make strategic decisions, and drive business outcomes..💬 "This is by far, one of the best courses I've taken about combining business with design." Principal Product Designer @Meta / Ex-Doordash.Tap into the real live MBA strategies and success frameworks I've used to helping companies to secure millions in funding and grown my multi-6-figures side hustle businesses. Outcome from Alumni:+ 72% higher confidence connecting design to business outcomes+ 68% higher confidence in strategic decision-making+ 56% higher confidence in business storytelling skills

Future-Proof Your Design Career: AI-Powered Strategy + Business Storytelling

Master Business Acumen & AI-Powered Strategy

Drive Business Growth Through Multiplying Design Impact

Prove Design ROI With Data

Communicate Confidently & Influence Decisions

Junior designers. 
Learning AI production tools like (Cursor, Lovable..etc). 

This course is NOT for:

3-4 hours including self learning, assignment, live sessions

Time allocation weekly:

<h3>Growth Designers</h3><ul><li>Feel lost when executives talk strategy, market fit, or ROI. </li><li>Need to develop strategic thinking with AI tools</li></ul>

Senior Designers<ul><li>Tired of being "just" the designer. </li><li>Your craft is great but struggle to get promoted or trusted with strategic decisions.</li></ul>

Design Consultant<ul><li>Need confidence across business models and growth stages. </li><li>Want to communicate design value clearly to earn client trust.</li></ul>

Build a complete product with AI: From finding the right opportunity to an on-brand product to defending your decisions under real pressure.

Product, Design Leader | Business Design

Product Design Leader | 2x Business Founder | Coached 10,000+ Designers

AI products serving 1M+ businesses

MYOB

Karbon

Blackbird

Simon Hilton

AI Product Director | 4 x Author of The Product Leader Series 

Most AI prototypes die in their first stakeholder meeting. Not because they look bad. Because nobody could answer: What's the evidence? What's the business impact? Why this solution?👉 You're a designer who builds great work but can't prove it drives business outcomes or stays on brand with your design system 👉 You're a PM who wants to validate and prototype fast without shipping generic AI output 👉 You're a founder who needs to move from idea to defensible product before the window closes95% of AI-powered products fail to create measurable business impact (MIT)This course teaches you to answer all three questions and build the prototype at the same time, so you can: ✔️ Find the right business opportunity ✔️ Build an on-brand prototype with AI ✔️ Sell it with a narrative that survives hard business questionsYou walk out with outcome driven, re-usable workflows to drive real value right away.Get to the outcome faster with less noise. No shiny object tooling. We focus on a few good tools to build scalable workflows. This is the course for you if you want: less noise, more quality outcomes, proven workflows to support your strategy.Build faster. Decide smarter. Ship with intent.

Build fast. Decide smart.
40% off code: KICKOFF

Find high-impact opportunities backed by evidence, not guesswork

Turn opportunities into product requirements tied to business value

Build on-brand prototypes that aligns Design System, not AI-generic

Sell your product decisions with a narrative that earns buy-in

Build scalable AI workflows with minimal tools and zero noise

Claude Pro Account

Not afraid to interact with Claude Code Interface

Available 4-5 hours/week during course

Designers (Product, Brand) Senior and Leads struggle to prove the work drives business outcomes or survives stakeholder scrutiny

Product managers Prototype and validate ideas fast without shipping generic AI output that can't survive a business case review

Founders and technical builders Need to move from idea to defensible product fast -grounded in evidence and connected to real business value

What to Build and Why: The Only Skill That Survives AI

AI Product Director | 4 x Author of The Product Leader Series

Learn why knowing what's worth building is the competitive edge that compounds, while tool skills commoditise around you

Why business acumen beats tool mastery in the AI era

Use a proven framework to find real problems, size the business impact, and diagnose root causes before you build anythi

How to identify high-impact opportunities with evidence

Discover the skills to operate with AI and turn one person into a team of five:  from evaluation, judgment to production

The AI native skill stack to scale operation

Shift from "do what's in my role" to owning discovery, prototyping, and business cases regardless of your current title.

Escape title jail and own outcomes, not tasks

Cash Flow Reality: How to Design What Ships

David Wang

Product Leader (Ex-Kajabi, Linktree, Expedia)

Design Leader | Business Design Coach | 2x Business Founders

Understand how revenue, cost, and cash flow shape what gets funded.

How Business Goals Drive Priority

The real framework PMs use to green-light, delay, or kill work.

Inside a PM’s Decision Process

See why a design gets approved in a corporate but cut in a scale-up, with examples from both co-hosts.

Why Company Stage Changes Everything

Practical steps to link your work to outcomes and spot projects likely to ship.

Three Actions You Can Take Today

Level Up Your Design Career Beyond Senior

Design Leader | 2x Business Founder | Coached 10,000+ Designers

Aniruddha Kadam

Product Design Leader | x-Google, LinkedIn, Shopify

Personal transformation stories, and moments of clarity that revealed the traditional design path wasn’t enough

Paths Beyond Senior Designer

How to align your work with organisational goals as a Design Manager or Principal IC

Shift From Execution to Strategy

Learn the "critical" skills, from building systems-thinking habits to mastering communication techniques

Skill-Stacking For Success

Becoming a high performing strategic designer

Product Design Leader | Coached 350+ Designers | Top-NPS-ranked GA instructor

Understand business decision-making and think like a business leader with a heart of a designer.

Future Proof Design Career by Improving Strategic Thinking

Learn to align design with business goals and become an influential partner.

Gain Trust by Influence Strategically

Practical tips to boost performance in your day-to-day work to improve working relationships with leaders and your team.

Manage Up and Across Effectively

Advocating for Design in Cross-Functional Teams

Paulina Galindo

Product Design Lead @DoorDash | Ex-LinkedIn | Career coach for designers

Jacalin Ding (host)

Principal Designer & Course Creator 🤹 Coached 10,000+ designers worldwide

Learn strategies for effectively articulate design to stakeholders and influencing decision-making

Communicating Design’s Value:

How to maneuver through diverse organizational structures and overcome common challenges

Navigating Organizational Dynamics:

Aligning design objectives with broader business goals to make design a driving force in product development.

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